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Lecture Schedule

  lec3-slides

 Week

Day

Date (2013)

Topic

Reading

Slides

Audio (Panopto)

Code Examples

Homework Assigned

Homework Due

1

Mon

Jan 7

Lecture 1: The What and Why of Parallel Programming

Module 1: Sections1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2

lec1-slides

lec1-audio

ArraySum0.hj

 

 

2 

Wed

Jan 9

Lecture 2: Async-Finish Parallel Programming, Data & Control Flow with Async Tasks, Computation Graphs

Module 1: Sections 1.3, 3.1, 3.2

lec2-slides

lec2-audio 

HW1, quicksort.hj

 

3 

Fri

Jan 11

Lecture 3: Computation Graphs (contd), Parallel Speedup, Strong Scaling, Abstract Performance Metrics

Module 1: Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3lec3-slides ArraySum1.hj 

42

Mon

Jan 14

Lecture 4: Abstract Performance Metrics (contd), Parallel Efficiency, Amdahl's Law, Weak Scaling

Module 1: Sections 3.3, 3.4lec4-slideslec4-audioSearch2.hj  

5 

Wed

Jan 16

Lecture 5: Data Races, Determinism, Memory Models

Module 1: Chapter 4lec5-slides    

6 

Fri

Jan 18

Lecture 6: Memory Models Data races (contd), Futures --- Tasks with Return Values

 Module 1: Chapter 4, Section 5.1     

-3

Mon

Jan 21

School Holiday (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)

      

7 

Wed

Jan 23

Lecture 7: Futures (contd)

    HW2HW1

8 

Fri

Jan 25

Lecture 8: Finish Accumulators

      

94

Mon

Jan 28

Lecture 9: Parallel Prefix Sum (Array Reductions with Associative Operators)

      

10 

Wed

Jan 30

Lecture 10: Parallel Prefix Sum (contd),

      

11 

Fri

Feb 1

Lecture 11: Forasync Loops, Forall Loops, Parallel Quicksort

      

125

Mon

Feb 04

Lecture 12: Barrier Synchronization in Forall Loops

      

13 

Wed

Feb 06

Lecture 13:Abstract vs. Real Performance, seq clause, Forasync Chunking,

    HW3HW2

14 

Fri

Feb 08

Lecture 14: Point-to-point Synchronization and Phasers

      

156

Mon

Feb 11

Lecture 15: Phaser Accumulators, Bounded Phasers

      

16 

Wed

Feb 13

Lecture 16: Summary of Barriers and Phasers

      

17 

Fri

Feb 15

Lecture 17: Task Affinity with Places

      

187

Mon

Feb 18

Lecture 18: Task Affinity with Places (contd)

      

19 

Wed

Feb 20

Lecture 19: Midterm Summary, Take-home Exam 1 distributed

    HW4HW3

- 

F

Feb 22

No Lecture (Exam 1 due by 4pm today)

      

-

M-F

Feb 25- Mar 01

Spring Break

 

 

 

 

 

 

208

Mon

Mar 04

Lecture 20: Critical sections and the Isolated statement

     

 

21 

Wed

Mar 06

Lecture 21: Isolated statement (contd), Monitors, Actors

     

 

22 

Fri

Mar 08

Lecture 22: Actors (contd)

     

 

239

Mon

Mar 11

Lecture 23: Linearizability of Concurrent Objects

   

 

 

 

24 

Wed

Mar 13

Lecture 24: Linearizability of Concurrent Objects (contd)

    

 

 

25 

Fri

Mar 15

Lecture 25: Safety and Liveness Properties

   

 

 

 

2610

Mon

Mar 18

Lecture 26: Parallel Programming Patterns

   

 

 

 

27 

Wed

Mar 20

Lecture 27: Introduction to Java Threads

    HW5

HW4

28 

Fri

Mar 22

Lecture 28: Bitonic Sort

   

 

 

 

2911

Mon

Mar 25

Lecture 29: Java Threads (contd), Java synchronized statement

   

 

 

 

30 

Wed

Mar 27

Lecture 30: Java synchronized statement (contd), advanced locking

   

 

 

 

-

Fri

Mar 29

Midterm Recess

      

3112

Mon

Apr 01

Lecture 31: Java Executors and Synchronizers

    

 

 

32 

Wed

Apr 03

Lecture 32: Volatile Variables and Java Memory Model

   

 

HW6

HW5

33 

Fri

Apr 05

Lecture 33: Message Passing Interface (MPI)

   

 

 

 

3413

Mon

Apr 08

Lecture 34: Message Passing Interface (MPI, contd)

     

 

35 

Wed

Apr 10

Lecture 35: Cloud Computing, Map Reduce

   

 

 

 

36 

Fri

Apr 12

Lecture 36: Map Reduce (contd)

   

 

 

 

3714

Mon

Apr 15

Lecture 37: Speculative parallelization of isolated blocks

   

 

 

 

38 

Wed

Apr 17

Lecture 38: Comparison of Parallel Programming Models

   

 

 

HW6

39 

Fri

Apr 19

Lecture 39: Course Review, Take-home Exam 2 distributed

      

-

Fri

Apr 25

Exam 2 due

 

 

 

 

 

 

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